Fantasy

I wish for yellow moments
under white birch trees

where sun is born on even gray
moist days. I wish to hold

three sugar maple leaves before
my face, a fan of orange, red

and purple-gold, a signal
to the silent, silken ones who

paint the trees in fall
that I’m in love with them.

Patricia Lee Lewis

Biography

Patricia Lee Lewis leads writing retreats at Patchwork Farm in western Massachusetts and internationally. She celebrates our relationship to the earth as sacred, to writing as a way of finding what is deepest within us, and to teaching writing as a participatory, supportive endeavor. She holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College, and a BA from Smith College, Phi Beta Kappa. An Affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists and national trainer of workshop leaders, her chapbook of poems, A Kind of Yellow, won first prize for poetry in Writer’s Digest’s International Competition of self-published books, 2005. It is available at www.writingretreats.org.